Filling the club’s AFLW list is the priority over levelling the QW Winter Series for the Gold Coast Suns

Suns AFLW coach David Lake says levelling the QW Winter Series against Brisbane will come second to the club’s focus of finding the final 12 players for their women’s list.

SUNS AFLW coach David Lake says levelling the QW Winter Series against Brisbane will come second to the club’s focus of finding the final 12 players for their women’s list.

With 12 spots still up for grabs with the Suns team that will enter the AFLW in 2020, the second game of the QW Winter Series at Mackay’s Great Barrier Reef Arena on Sunday will provide a crucial opportunity for those wanting to prove themselves.

“We would love to win and be competitive but competitive for us looks so many different ways at the moment,” Lake said.

“It’s important we find the talent. There will be a dozen of our girls who aren’t signed playing that game because they are looking to find their way onto the list.”

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Gold Coast lost the opening game of the three-game series against the Lions and Lake said the focus was on ensuring the team improves each quarter they play.

“It’s about making sure our fifth quarter of football is more developed,” Lake said.

“We have been doing the right things at training and we can improve how we go about it.

Inaugural Gold Coast Suns AFLW senior coach David Lake. Picture: Supplied.

“It’s about quarter five, six, seven and eight in the process of getting to nine, 10, 11 and 12. We need to continue to progress. We hang nothing on the result.

“We were pleased with the last result based on the fact we had never been together. We have had a little bit of time together now so what can we dish up this time.”

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Gold Coast still have the option of making four priority signings before the draft and every game is a chance to audition for a spot for the players.

It will be the first time the Suns women’s squad travels together and Lake, who spent three years as an assistant with Brisbane, was confident they could already do it better than their male counterparts.

“In the experience I have had previously in the three years travelling with the girls, the girls travel better,” Lake said.

“Girls are more supportive of each other so when you get in an environment where you have got 25 of your travelling party female they work together better than in a male environment.”